Title & Author:

Design like you give a damn : architectural responses to humanitarian crises / edited by Architecture for Humanity.

Publication:

New York : Metropolis Books, 2006.

Description:

333 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-333).
Introduction : I hope it's a long list-- / Cameron Sinclair -- 100 years of humanitarian design / Kate Stohr -- Lightweight emergency tent / Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees -- Shelter frame kit / World Shelters ; interview, Bruce LeBel -- GripClips / Shelter Systems -- BOLD / CHF International -- Global Village Shelters / Ferrara Design -- Burning Man Shelter tests : Podville / Icosa Village ; Hexayurt / Vinay Gupta ; Unofficial Strong Angel training exercises / Strong Angel -- Concrete canvas / Peter Brewis, William Crawford -- 139 Shelter / Future Systems -- Transitional Community / Oxfam -- Paper church ; Paper log houses ; Paper tube emergency shelter / Shigeru Ban Architects -- Super adobe / Cal-Earth ; interview, Nader Khalili -- Pallet house / I-Beam Design -- Rubble house / LA Architects -- Low-tech balloon system / TechnoCraft -- Extreme housing / Deborah Gans, Matt Jelacic -- Prefabricated core housing ; Core housing / Relief International -- Safe(R) House / Harvard, MIT -- Housing in northern Afghanistan / Shelter for Life -- Mobile migrant worker housing ; Pink houses with greenhouses / Design Corps -- Maasai Integrated Shelter Project / Intermediate Technology Development Group -- Lucy House ; 20.0 House / Rural Studio -- Hopi Nation Elder Home / Red Feather Development Group -- Bayview Rural Village / RBGC Architecture, Research & Urbanism ; interview, Maurice D. Cox -- Quinta Monroy Housing Project / ELEMENTAL Housing Initiative, Taller de Chile -- Northern Ireland Cross-Community Initiative / Habitat for Humanity, Northern Ireland -- Sistema Arde / Hierve-Diseñeria -- Huts and low-riders / Mad Housers -- Dome Village / Justiceville, USA -- First Step Housing / Common Ground Community -- paraSITE / Michael Rakowitz -- Mason's Bend Chapel / Rural Studio -- Appirampattu Village Center / Logan Allen -- Barefoot College / Barefoot Architects -- Homeboy Industries / Detroit Collaborative Design Center -- Center for Disabled Workers / Technical University, Vienna -- Siyathemba Soccer "clinic" / Swee Hong Ng -- Favela-Bairro Projects / Jorge Mario Jáuregui Architects -- Rufisque Women's Centre / Hollmẽn Reuter Sandman Architects -- Shelter 2 / Christopher Livingston, Montana State University -- Mobile health clinic / atelier [gilliland tolila] -- Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies / East Coast Architects -- Medwed Clinic / Michal Vital, Yuval Amir -- Gando Primary School / Diébédo Francis Kéré -- Bamboo Primary School / theskyisbeautiful architecture -- Druk White Lotus School / Arup Associates -- School solar kitchen / BASIC Initiative, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington -- Hole-in-the-Wall Schools / Dr. Sugata Mitra -- A bridge too far / Chinese University of Hong Kong -- Hippo Water Roller / Grant Gibbs -- PlayPump / Roundabout Outdoor ; interview, Trevor Field -- Ceramic water filter / Potters for Peace -- Watercone / Stephan Augustin -- MoneyMaker Pumps / KickStart -- Long-lasting antimalaria bed nets / Acumen Fund, Sumitomo Chemical Corp. -- Aquacube / Süd-Chemie -- Clean Hub System / Shelter Architecture -- Power Shade / FTL Design Engineering Studio -- Seba Dalkai School solar classroom / Native American Photovoltaics -- Himalayan Rescue Association Pheriche Clinic / Lotus Energy -- VIP latrine / Arup Associates -- Living Machine / BASIC Initiative, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington -- Ecological dry toilet / Cësar Añorve -- UnBathroom / William Hsu -- shelterproject / shelterproject.org -- Sphere Project / Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response, InterAction -- Roots of Peace / Heidi Kühn, Gary Kühn, Kyleigh Kühn -- European Greenbelt / World Conservation Union -- A civilian occupation : the politics of Israeli architecture / Rafi Segal, Eyal Weizman -- Sleeping Bag Project / Project Locus -- Housing for health / Paul Pholeros, Stephan Rainow, Paul Torzillo -- Viewing platforms ; Stair to park / Heavy Trash -- Finding public space in the margins / Center for Community Research and Design, Woodbury University -- City without a ghetto / Center for Urban Pedagogy -- Shrinking Cities / Shrinking Cities -- Urban acupuncture / Curitiba, Brazil.

Summary:

"Edited by architecture for Humanity, a volunteer-based organization that provides architectural solutions to humanitarian crises, Design Like You Give a Damm brings the best of humanitarian design to the printed page. Proceeds from the sale of this book will support the work of Architecture for Humanity."--Cover.

Resources:
cover art

ISBN:

1933045256 (pbk.)
9781933045252 (pbk.)

Subject:

Emergency housing Design and construction.
Buildings, Temporary Design and construction.
Disaster victims Dwellings.
Sustainable architecture.
Architecture and society.
Disaster victims Habitations.
Architecture et société.
Logement de secours Conception et construction.
Victimes de catastrophes Habitations.
Architecture durable.
Arkitektur och samhälle.
Nödbostäder.

Added entries:

Architecture for Humanity (Organization)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246104
Call No.: BIB 175712
Status: Available